SOLUTION: The length of a table is 5 meters greater than the width. The area of the table is 104m squared. What is the lenth and width?
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Question 536339: The length of a table is 5 meters greater than the width. The area of the table is 104m squared. What is the lenth and width? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The length of a table is 5 meters greater than the width. The area of the table is 104m squared. What is the leng
th and width?
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let width be W
then length is W+5
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Area = length * width
104 = w(w+5)
104 = w^2+5w
w^2+5w-104 = 0
Use Quadratic formula:
w = [-5+-sqrt(25-4*-104)]/2
Positive solution:
w = [-5+sqrt(441)]/2
etc.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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